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After a last, 20-lap swim in the pool of his Alexandria, Va., home on Monday morning-soon afterward, the Fords moved into the White House-the President began his exhausting week. He flew to Chicago aboard Air Force One to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was Ford's first out-of-town trip as President, and he and his wife Betty were greeted at Chicago's O'Hare Airport with a flubbed announcement. "Ladies and gentlemen," a voice intoned over the airport's loudspeakers, "the President of the United States and Mrs. Nixon...
...complained. Finally, deciding that the suit did in fact fit properly, he made his farewells: "I'll say goodbye to you, my good and dear friends." The congressional leaders could only say, in their turn, that they were sorry. "It was kind of pitiful," one of them said afterward...
With the impeachment drive gathering momentum, Nixon conveyed an impression of beleaguered isolation. Watergate left him time for only one appointment: a session to review Treasury Secretary William E. Simon's recent trip to the Middle East. Afterward, Simon said: "I have never seen the President in a more positive and affirmative frame of mind." The few White House aides who saw Nixon recently also insisted that he was in good spirits. One said...
...this in turn prompted another question: Did Safire have some inside information? The column offered none. Questioned afterward, Safire said that he knew of one harassed official, but would not name him. He further speculated that Jake Jacobsen, the lawyer implicated in the milk deal, may have undergone coercion, but he had no supporting facts. By "bribes," Safire meant the lenient treatment given some Watergate suspects - not that plea bargain ing is unique to Watergate. As to the timing of Connally's indictment, Safire seemed unaware of an important point: Jaworski's office had delayed the proceeding...
...Boston, where the playwright was born. It's a handsomely acted and fascinating fable of four frustrated and funny freaks. You may believe that murder, adultery, impotence and sadism can't be amusing, but you're wrong; and you'll also have something to mull over for days afterward. But you've got only until Aug. 17, when the troupe follows up with "A Man For All Seasons," a fine play that does have to do with kings...